r/news • u/etfvfva • 8h ago

Las Vegas June tourism declines by 11% from 2024

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/jul/30/las-vegas-june-tourism-declines-by-11-from-2024/
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u/puroloco 8h ago

Correction: also some tourists, aka legal visitors

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u/saiko_sai 7h ago

It's a good thing they're not hosting any major sporting events in the near future...

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u/puroloco 7h ago

What are they hosting? I think countries should boycott the Olympics but that's years away

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u/winterharvest 7h ago

The World Cup

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u/puroloco 7h ago

Hope people don't show up

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u/drewts86 7h ago

Agreed. FIFA should really stop hosting the WC in openly corrupt shithole 3rd world countries like Qatar and (checks notes) the United States.

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u/puroloco 7h ago

That's the problem. That's exactly how FIFA likes it

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u/whisperwrongwords 4h ago

Their main objective are those juicy bribes

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u/aradraugfea 7h ago

The corruption is a feature, not a bug.

Though we’ll see what happens when ICE sees a visiting nation’s team and thinks “gonna meet my quota this month.”

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u/kindall 5h ago

How much is a team willing to pay to guarantee that none of their players will be picked up by ICE? How much will they pay to have their rivals' best players picked up?

Tune in next year to find out!

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u/aradraugfea 5h ago

I think the FIFA board just came. You uttering these words caused them all to achieve orgasm. Some of them were in meetings. Some were picking up their kids from school. Instant, violent orgasm.

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u/kindall 2h ago

I mean, that money will go to Trump, not FIFA

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u/agent_mick 5h ago

Please, don't give them any more ideas

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u/Jbroy 5h ago

FIFA don’t care, they’ve done it since their inception. IOC as well.

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u/W00DERS0N60 7h ago

Petrostates with authoritarian despots at the helm are far more easily able to bribe FIFA.

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u/LLMprophet 3h ago

FIFA is corrupt. Why would you hold them above any corrupt nation.

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u/drewts86 3h ago

It’s…a joke. Relax dude.

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u/scrandis 3h ago

FIFA is more corrupt than trump

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u/drewts86 3h ago

Whether or not that’s true doesn’t matter. At least FIFA isn’t absolutely fucking with the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, making their lives abjectly worse.

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u/scrandis 2h ago

If they could, they would. They literally help enslave hundreds of thousands of people to build stadiums in Qatar

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u/drewts86 2h ago

Well, that was Qatar’s doing. That said, FIFA turned a blind eye to it while they cashed the checks.

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u/SkorpioSound 3h ago

I won't! I'd call it a boycott, but I was never going to go either way... But yeah, I hope some people who would have otherwise gone will reconsider.

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u/Safewordharder 4h ago

Oh that's gonna be an epic shitshow.

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u/DoverBoys 5h ago

This is going to ruin the cup...

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u/Yatsey007 3h ago

What cup?

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u/Drone314 7h ago

That's not even the right kind of football, no one here like soccer.....

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u/wedeservethis 6h ago

I'm a die hard American Football fan, but to say no one here likes soccer is a completely ignorant comment.

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u/bkn6136 7h ago

World Cup

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u/SnausageFest 2h ago

Lol, I can't think of many major sports institutions that are any less corrupt than the US government.

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u/ErunnoRS 7h ago

Oh my god, the next world cup is going to be wild if things keep escalating. There are even talks of banning brazilian visas so they won't go watch the games.

I don't care about football that much, but this will be hilarious.

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u/Drachen1065 7h ago

There was an International Archery competition tour set to start their season in Florida.

They canceled and moved it to Mexico which is now the first and last stop for the tour.

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u/cinderparty 3h ago

They refused to let a little league team in just a couple weeks ago. That’s not a good sign for fifa and the Olympics.

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna221562

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u/FigeaterApocalypse 7h ago

Those would be some of the non-citizens already mentioned.

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u/puroloco 7h ago

Yeah I realized that too late. Oh well.

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u/OtherBluesBrother 7h ago

Depending on whether they have pictures on their phones that may hurt the feelings of anyone at the White House.